Steeleye Span - Two Constant Lovers lyrics
[Steeleye Span - Two Constant Lovers lyrics]
Now as I was a-walking down by the sea shore
Where the wind it did whistle and
The waves they did roar
There I heard a fair maid
Make a terrible sound
Like the wind and the waves
That did echo around
Ch: Crying "Ohh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore and he's drowned
And I never shall see him no more"
She'd a voice like a nightingale
Skin like a dove and the song that she sang
It was all about love
When I asked her to marry
Me, marry me please
But the answer she gave: "My
Love's drowned in the seas"
I said I had gold and I'd silver beside
On a coach and six horses
With me she could ride
She said: "I'll not marry nor
Yet prove a wife
I'll be constant and true all
The days I have life"
Then she flung her arms wide and
She took a great leap
From the cliffs that were high
To the billows so deep
Saying: "The rocks of the ocean
Shall be my death bed
And the shrimps of the sea
Shall swim over my head"
And now every night at six bells they appear
When the moon is shining and
The stars they are clear
These two constant lovers with
Each other's charms
Rolling over and over in each other's arms
Where the wind it did whistle and
The waves they did roar
There I heard a fair maid
Make a terrible sound
Like the wind and the waves
That did echo around
Ch: Crying "Ohh my love is gone
He's the youth I adore and he's drowned
And I never shall see him no more"
She'd a voice like a nightingale
Skin like a dove and the song that she sang
It was all about love
When I asked her to marry
Me, marry me please
But the answer she gave: "My
Love's drowned in the seas"
I said I had gold and I'd silver beside
On a coach and six horses
With me she could ride
She said: "I'll not marry nor
Yet prove a wife
I'll be constant and true all
The days I have life"
Then she flung her arms wide and
She took a great leap
From the cliffs that were high
To the billows so deep
Saying: "The rocks of the ocean
Shall be my death bed
And the shrimps of the sea
Shall swim over my head"
And now every night at six bells they appear
When the moon is shining and
The stars they are clear
These two constant lovers with
Each other's charms
Rolling over and over in each other's arms